Name profile

Tina

Short form of Christina, Martina and other names ending in tina.

PronunciationEnglish /ˈtiː.nə/; Italian /ˈtiː.na/; Dutch /ˈti.naː/
Usage languagesCroatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Georgian, German, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Slovene, Swedish
US rank (2025)#2,778

Meaning and history

Tina is a short form of Christina, Martina and other names ending in -tina, as well as Dutch Catharina, Swedish and Croatian Katarina, and Georgian Tinatin. A famous bearer was American musician Tina Turner (1939–2023), born Anna Mae Bullock.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 284 births, rank #928
2007: 254 births, rank #1,037
2008: 222 births, rank #1,157
2009: 214 births, rank #1,174
2010: 161 births, rank #1,420
20112011: 175 births, rank #1,329
2012: 179 births, rank #1,315
2013: 148 births, rank #1,496
2014: 153 births, rank #1,464
2015: 158 births, rank #1,454
20162016: 121 births, rank #1,731
2017: 146 births, rank #1,515
2018: 125 births, rank #1,672
2019: 100 births, rank #1,949
2020: 84 births, rank #2,156
20212021: 83 births, rank #2,233
2022: 59 births, rank #2,856
2023: 101 births, rank #1,946
2024: 66 births, rank #2,637
20252025: 61 births, rank #2,778

Tina moved from #786 to #929 for girls between 2005 and 2006. Its highest annual birth count came in 1968, with 14,772 births.